Title of the resource
Legonium
Title of the resource in english
Legonium
Original language
Latin and English
Target and Age Group
Beginners’ Latin, teachers, children, homeschoolers, general public, youth movements
Link to resource
Accessed on 25 August, 2020
Contents & Purpose
Simple stories about a town named Legonium (made of lego) in which the inhabitants of the town try to track down a mysterious jewel thief. At one point they visit Pompeii, using the Sydney University Lego reconstruction of Pompeii, housed in the Nicholson Museum.
The stories use conversational Latin to introduce beginning Latin students to the language. While mythological stories do not feature much, employs popular culture references, jokes, puns, to myths in storylines, and in twitter and facebook.
